Look at this email. Officially ordering the money to be frozen. It was sent just 91 minutes after trump hung up with zelensky. Fact and contest. Trumps own people sent signals at the same time that they were doing this that the situation was dicey. How do we know . His political appointee mike duffy wrote, quote, i appreciate your keeping that information closely held. Why . Why be so quiet about withholding aid to ukraine . Fact, just days after Congress Found out about the whistleblower, the white house was informed about the whistleblower. Remember the timeline. Even before congress came asking, they knew theres reporting that even the president was aware of the whistleblower. When do they do . When congress comes, they abruptly make the decision to release the money. Why such a quick turn around . Folks at the dod were asking what happened . We dont know what mr. Duffys answer was. But we know he was, quote, glad to have this behind us why would you be glad to have something behind
Articles of impeachment . Democratic candidates announce their critical cash hauls. Who raised the most money . Who raised the least . And which candidate is dropping out of the race . Man of his word . President trump offers new praise for north koreas kim jongun, despite new threats from the dictator. Tonight, newly released propaganda video may belie kims frustration. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. A new twist in the ukraine scandal at the heart of President Trumps impeachment. National security website just security is reporting its review of unredacted Trump Administration documents found that a white house budget official told the pentagon that the order to freeze u. S. Military aid to ukraine came directly from President Trump. Democrats are seizing on the new revelation with Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer calling it a devastating blow to gop plans for the impeachment trial. And House Speaker nancy pelosi just tweeted moments ago, blasting the president sayi
Witnesses. Also, the first hearing is now set for a week from tomorrow. The chairman jerry nadler is inviting President Trump and his lawyer to take part and a Senior Administration official tells cnn the proposal is under consideration and will likely be discussed with the president as he spends the holiday week in palm beach, florida. Well talk about that and more with a congresswoman and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, to capitol hill. Manu is join iing us. We now have the transcripts of the impeachment testimony by a Key State Department official and a key office of management and budget official, mark sandy. Tell us about that. Yeah, mark sandy, the lone office of management and budget official to go behind closed doors an testify before house impeachment investigators details what he knew and didnt about why the security aid for ukraine had been withheld. Nearly 400 million that the president was pushing for investigations into his political foes and
Medal of honor recipient inviting us into his home to tell us his miraculous story of survival and hope, inspiring story about what he wants, what every single american know about over the holidays. Im ed henry in for martha maccallum. House democrats ramping up calls to expand the list of witnesses after new emails indicate that the white house froze aid to ukraine in just 91 minutes after President Trumps july phone call. What is wrong with witnesses . What is wrong with the documen documents . One argument, leader mcconnell, give us one argument why they shouldnt be part of the trial. Ed this morning on fox, the affirmation Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell noted that democrats conveniently trying to ignore some precedent from the impeachment trial of president bill clinton. All im asking of humor is that we treat trump the way we treated clinton. We had a procedure that was approved 1000, schumer voted for it, to go through the opening argument and having a questioning period,
Concer concerns. Well begin today with the latest on the impeachment inquiry. Here is whats happening now. The office of management and budget advised the pentagon to holdup aid to ukraine on the same day President Trump asked ukrainian president zelensky to do us a favor, investigate the 2016 elections and former Vice President joe biden and his son hunter. Rudy giuliani is promoting baseless conspiracy theories, debunked storied otherwise known as lies about joe biden. And ambassador yovanovitch committing perjury. Mitch mcconnell says he hopes nancy pelosi will send impeachment articles to the senate asap, he does not appear to be particular to hold an actual trial. We cant take up the matter we dont have and so hopefully theyll be on the way over at some point. Nancy pelosi seems confident in her decision to hold the articles even as republicans are accusing her of fearing for what the senate trial will look like. Telling politico this. I am never afraid and i am rarely surprised.